“I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting‚ dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists‚ we believe we can will action through language. If that’s the case‚ we have to take responsibility for what we say.” - Yusef Komunyakaat. Before rap’s popularity exploded in American culture‚ West African and Caribbean musicians began to tell stories with the help of a beat
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Youth Gangs Push and Pull Factors Arjun Sharma SOC101Y Friday‚ November 23‚ 2012 Ms. Fulton Youth Gangs Push and Pull factors in America What influences youth to join and leave gangs in America? This essay strives to seek and inquire an answer or explanation to this question. I will try to approach the answer to this question by analyzing the biggest factors of it such as the influence of social institutions‚ psychological behaviour‚ media and many more to determine the push and pull factors
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Traditional Socioeconomics of Joining Gangs and the Relation of Maslows Hierarchy of Needs By: Kimberly Miller Gang Activities and Drug Operation-2 There have been many theoretical explanations of why delinquents and adolescence‚ youth and other people might join gangs. Members of gangs have been questioned on why they would want to join a gang and most of them come up with socioeconomic factors and some say the attraction to street gangs are a rush. There are many different socioeconomic
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Martha Onakinor Prof. Quine ENG 101.1067 Essay 2 March 27‚ 2017 Word Count: 474 Violence in the Entertainment Media Entertainment media are means of transmitting information or programs from one point to another. Some of these media include television shows‚ films‚ video games‚ and music. Unfortunately‚ some of these programs portrayed in these media have moved from entertainment to portraying violence‚ so many people‚ especially the young ones tend to mimic what they see in films. There is no doubt
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1. How does sport help prevent children and teens from joining gangs? One off the reasons that sport is such an effective tool is because it can provide an alternative structure and context for young people who would otherwise be attracted by negative social pursuits. We know sport can be a powerful tool for tackling youth crime. It can get young people off the streets‚ out of trouble and engage in education. Sport can act as a supportive method to young people by encouragement‚ and developing their
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School Violence: Bullying The word violence is defined as‚ “an intense‚ turbulent or furious and often destructive action‚ force or exertion of physical strength so as to injure or abuse” (Oxford‚ 1316). Associating that term with the safety of our children within a public school setting will bring about an immediate reaction to discover what is root of the problem and what‚ as a society‚ can we do to prevent this behavior in the future. Violence in public schools is a growing concern for parents
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the most large-scale and complex problems America deals with each year is that of domestic violence. This crime is one in which leaves the victim (statistically more common a female) filled with fear‚ anxiety‚ and shame; feelings that one should not have to feel. Yet as America progresses through time‚ no one solution has been proven to significantly reduce the ongoing domestic violence occurrence. However‚ the potential for lowering the number of domestic violence occurrences is present‚ but first
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Social problems are conditions which undermine the well being of all or some members of a society that are also a matter of public controversy (Eitzen and Bakka-Zinn). Poverty is an important social problem around the world and in the U.S. it is mostly due to income inequality. The textbook tells us that the government defines poverty as families living with income below a poverty line roughly equal to three times the cost of food. Income is distributed unequally in the United States with the richest
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main thing in common: violence. Whether one is shooting down Nazi soldiers on the beaches of Normandy or sawing apart Locust drones on the planet Sera with his or her lancer‚ one is engaging in extremely violent video-game action‚ and probably having a lot of fun doing so. With the rapid growth of intensely violent games‚ parents and politicians across the nation have begun to protest against violence in video games and have even gone as far as to say it is the cause of violence in America’s youth
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The film‚ Gangs of New York (2002)‚ directed by Martin Scorsese‚ is loosely based on Herbert Asbury’s work‚ “The Gangs of New York: an informal history of the underworld” (1927). The film tells the story of a fictional character‚ Amsterdam‚ who is trying to avenge his father‚ who was killed in battle by the film’s main antagonist‚ William Cutting‚ also known as Bill the Butcher. The story is set in New York City in the mid-nineteenth century‚ specifically‚ at the infamous Five Points‚ which now makes
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